Karl Marx
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.Collection: America
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.Collection: People
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite poleCollection: Ignorance
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.Collection: Mother
Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.Collection: Heritage
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.Collection: People
Communism begins where atheism begins.Collection: Atheism
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.Collection: Motivational
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.Collection: Cutting
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.Collection: Thinking
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.Collection: Compassion
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.Collection: Rope
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.Collection: Income
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.Collection: Past
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.Collection: Money
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its miseryCollection: Rotten
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.Collection: People
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.Collection: Crush
History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.Collection: Funny
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.Collection: Christian
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.Collection: Cheating
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.Collection: Cracks
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.Collection: Plunder
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.Collection: Science
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.Collection: Men
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.Collection: Style
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.Collection: Selfish
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.Collection: Christian
Ideas do not exist separately from language.Collection: Ideas
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.Collection: Spring
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.Collection: Religious
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.Collection: Men
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.Collection: Hunting
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.Collection: Spiritual
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.Collection: Struggle
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.Collection: Self
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .Collection: Gambling
The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.Collection: Mean
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.Collection: Mean
The way people get their living determines their social outlook.Collection: People
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.Collection: Men